Earning a college degree can be a pathway to higher wages and better employment opportunities, but for those who fail to graduate, those prospects quickly fade. And at a time when a majority of students finance their education with loans, dropping out comes with greater risks, writes Danielle Douglas-Gabriel for The Washington Post. Read more...

A strong push towards becoming more ‘international’ is drawing more Malaysian students to enrol in Taiwanese universities, writes Rebecca Rajaendram for The Star. Read more...

The Ministry of Education and Training has set itself an ambitious goal of making English the second language at universities across Vietnam, reports VietnamNet Bridge. Read more...

Controversial new proposals to increase the powers and influence of faculty deans at the University of Hong Kong in the hiring of academics have been watered down, but still keep power in the hands of top management, writes Danny Lee for South China Morning Post. Read more...

The recently inaugurated University of Rojava in Syria’s northeastern Qamishli city called on qualified academics to join its staff in order to help in accomplishing its ambitions as the first university in Syria’s Kurdish region, reports ARA News. Read more...

Dr Lee Adam, education research fellow at the University of Otago, finds that universities might need to consider their plagiarism policies and how they might “influence or confuse students in counterproductive ways”, writes John Elmes for Times Higher Education. Read more...

The vice-chancellor of the University of Sydney says it is “immoral” that Australia relies on high-fee paying international students from poor families to prop up a broken funding system, writes Harry Pearl for the Daily Mail. Read more...

BRICS will be unable to launch its showpiece network university in 2016 as foundational issues are yet to be resolved, writes Kallol Bhattacherjee for The Hindu. Read more...

Amid concerns over the Brexit vote and reports that the new United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May is set to make student visa norms even more strict, it is no surprise that Indian students are looking at other options when planning overseas education, reports The Economic Times. Read more...

By Unsoo Jung. It was an astonishing sight. Some 1,600 policemen had gathered on the Ewha Womans University campus in Seoul in late July, some of them forcing past protesting students to escort four professors and a staff member out of the main hall where they had been trapped for almost 46 hours due to a student sit-in. Read more...